Americans can’t have nuanced conversations about Israel. I know who could teach them a thing or two.
Israelis have no trouble at all criticizing their government while still supporting their country
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Looking Forward Yes, we can talk to people we disagree with about Israel. Here’s how.
How is it that we have not figured out how to talk about Israel with people who disagree?
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Culture Why Siskel & Ebert were the Talmudic scholars of their day
As a new book explains, the film critics famously disagreed, but never disparaged
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News War is putting Jewish-Muslim relationships to the test. Some religious leaders are determined to protect them.
Jews and Muslims are grieving separately, and on occasion, together
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Israel News Jewish Groups Resume Dialogue With Churches After Israel Aid Schism
“We had the feeling of the Holy One being at work through us,” said the Rev. Mark Hanson, a top Lutheran leader, as he reflected on a recent meeting between Jewish and Christian leaders. That might sound a bit over the top, especially since the cleric was describing a meeting of Christian and Jewish organizational…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Resume Dialogue With Churches After 2012 Israel Aid Letter Spat
Leaders of national Jewish groups resumed a dialogue with mainline Christian churches ruptured by a call in 2012 by some Christian leaders to consider cutting U.S. assistance to Israel. “We affirm a strong commitment to continue working together on domestic and international issues of common concern,” said the joint statement issued by the groups Thursday…
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Life Interfaith Caravan Is Full of Female Rabbis
As the first woman to be ordained a Conservative rabbi, Amy Eilberg occupies a major place in the annals of Jewish women’s history. She has recently been squeezing her self into a very small space in the hopes of making another kind of history. Since September 11, she and seven other interfaith clergy have been…
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Life A Jew, a Muslim and a Christian Woman Dialogue
Just before the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I noticed that a new blog called “SheAnswersAbraham” went live on the Web. The timing was not coincidental, as it is a deliberate effort by a group of three women – a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim – to put an interfaith conversation about sacred texts out…
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